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Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is gravely concerned that a Thai army officer, his wife and another person accused of brutally murdering a Burmese migrant worker have escaped ju...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that The Prachuap Khiri Khan criminal court on 20 July 2004 approved a warrant for the arrest of Provincial Administrative Organisati...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that the case of Chamila Bandara, a 17-year-old boy who suffered from serious injuries due to being hung and beaten at t...
During the last two weeks there were two occasions in which victims of very serious acts of torture sought protection from the Human Rights Commission (HRC) of Sri Lanka claiming that they were facing...
In the Sunday Leader of July 17 under the caption Police Commission Blame IGP for Inaction by Shenan Moses, there appear several comments relating to the Constitutional powers of the National Po...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is gravely concerned by the illegal arrest and assault of Mrs. M. Piyawathi by the Baduraliya Police on 31 May 2004. After the arrest, she was ta...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received a copy of an affidavit signed at the remand prison in Kandy on 16 July (written in Sinhala) from Saman Priyankara, who suffered for ...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is concerned about the arrest, detention and torture of Wilfredo Damalerio and James Francis Defiesta, that took place on 27 June 2004 at about 9...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that the four people who were re-arrested by the security force from the courtyard of the Morang District Court on 14 Ju...
July 2004 is the 21st anniversary of the government-sponsored riots against Tamils in Sri Lanka. The month became known as Black July. Similar state-sponsored violence took place in Gujarat, India in ...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information of another re-arrest of four people by security personnel in violation of court orders in Morang, Nepal on 14 July 2004....
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a person named Mr. Soumyendu Mondal was arrested from his house by the police from Kharagpur Police Station and was...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that in spite of recommendations issued by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) of Sri Lanka February 2004 in favor of the evi...
Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is gravely concerned by another “honor killing” case reported from Shikarpur district, Sindh Province, Pakistan. Even though AHRC has ...
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding the case of G. Francis Udayapan, whose body was found in the Klang river on 23 May 2004, more than a m...
Dear friends Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC has been informed that Jayasekara Vithanage Saman Priyankara, a former torture victim, has been severely beaten up by police officers attached to the M...
Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is gravely concerned that 29 year old Mageswaran a/I Ramasamy was found hanging in the toilet of the Petaling Jaya Police Headquarters, where he h...
Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is seeking your urgent intervention regarding torture victim, J.V. Saman Priyankara, who was arrested at his house by ten police officers on 7 Jul...
Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the illegal detention of Terrance Fernando from 21 February to 25 June 2004 at the Kaduruwela Police Station in...
Dear friends The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is concerned by information regarding the assault and abduction of Pastor Wilson Fazal, on 16 May 2004 in Quetta, Pakistan. Prior to this incident...
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